Agriculture is very important in both Spain and Portugal. This European project is helping to bring new life to the degraded landscape at the border between these two countries.
- 23 January 2020
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It aims to transform and reinvigorate the soil with organic compost and man-made "technosols". It’s part of a joint project called Res2ValHUM involving three Portuguese cities - Braga, Guimarães and Porto - and four in Galicia: Santiago de Compostela, Ourense, Touro and A Coruña. The project has seven partners in total: two university laboratories and five companies, which specialise in technosols or organic compost production.